[WHITEWASH]

Experimental Documentary 58 min.

Photo: Scots.G at Adl.Reservation Still from film”Whitewash”, My Grandmother, June, my aunt on the left. School, Toronto.

[WHITEWASH- WE ARE]

This project investigates whitewashing as a process of assimilation in which dominant cultures reshape minority identities. Through the mapping of my father’s and my family’s history in Canada, the project examines how colonial and postcolonial narratives influence the ways history is constructed, remembered, and transmitted. By situating personal memory within broader structures of colonization, migration, and adaptation, the project questions whose histories are made visible, and which are silenced or transformed.The project aims to investigate how processes of whitewashing and assimilation have shaped identity, memory, and belonging across generations, using my family’s history as a critical lens.The project seeks to challenge dominant historical narratives by exposing how whitewashing operates within colonial and postcolonial contexts, transforming minority histories through assimilation and erasure.The project aims to reclaim a fragmented family history shaped by colonization, migration, and assimilation, and to question how identity is constructed through imposed narratives.Through mapping and archival exploration, the project aims to create a counter-narrative that resists whitewashing and repositions personal memory as a site of historical knowledge

[WHITEWASH] Documentary 58 min. Release: 2019.Regi: Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter Min. 58 min, Country:  Kanada & Sweden,With:  Scots.G and Fitz.G. Production : Newfilm/ Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter. With support from :  Konstnärsnämnden, IASPIS, Längmanska stipendiefond och Axel Johnsons stiftelse. Thanks to Scots.G, Fitz.G and Linda.E

Whitewash Länk: https://vimeo.com/253854142